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reconciliation of the regime of fines in the
material laws with the new Misdemeanor
Law. Along this mountain of regulations
also changes that are of material impor-
tanceare announced. Few years ago, in a
similar manner but at least to a smaller
extent,procedures were introduced in
the regulations that would penalize the
inappropriate actions of the state bod-
ies. These procedures did not work in the
“field”. In addition to the reduction of fines
in hundreds of laws, let us mention the
wrong concept about the people receiv-
ing honorariums in the Law on Contribu-
tions, then the unjustified retroactive use
of the Law on Profit Tax, in a short period
of time the third change in the regime of
transferred VAT with the Law on VAT, two
amendments to the same law published
in the same issue of the Official Gazette…
countless examples. Please, slow down a
little bit!
are seen, the proposals are not presented Legal setting of the regime
before the experts and stakeholders. Some- of proposing amendments
times the proposals are left to be prepared to the regulations
by legal laymen and incompetent law-pro-
posing entities, etc. We may present nu- There is an obvious need to define the
merous other illogical aspects in the “pro- mechanisms of proposing, passing and
cedures” for passing new regulation. amending the passed regulations.
Law-proposing entities are As a solution for the current situa-
“explaining” the new regulations, tion we offer a new regime for proposing
but on commercial grounds amendments to the laws (sic)! Once a law is
changed, it maynot be a subject to change
We will present also another situation at least in the next three years. This would
that is often seen. After a new regulation reduce the overproduction of new regula-
is passed, the law-proposing entities, also tions, the business sector will be able to
employed in the state administration, ex- plan and operate in a more predictable
plain on a large scale the implementation legal regime. Those who propose the laws
aspects of the new legal amendments. will become more cautious and focused in
However, this is not done through the state preparing new regulations, because they
bodies in which they work, but through will know that time will have to pass be-
events organized by private companies, on fore the next amendment. We remind that
commercial grounds and during the work- some time ago the “regulatory guillotine”
ing hours for which they are being paid a project was supposed to reduce the vast
salary by the state!? number of regulations in order to improve
the business climate. Are the goals that
Three amendments were supposed to be reached by removing
to the laws in a year a big number of unnecessary regulations
forgotten? Let us remind, it was all about
Just as an illustration, in August 2015 making it simpler and easier for the busi-
amendmentsto hundreds of laws were an- ness sector.
nounced in waves, mostly because of the
The train moves in the opposite direc-
tion now.
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